Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-12-24

news hss caueed renewed activity m the war depsftua nls aud strenuous efforts are belpg made 10 plBce the entire army on a wsr footing st the earliest possible moment. The excitement over these aud the news from Poland IS intense. All officers ca leave have received orders to join their cOlOrs im- medistely. Military men do not gener- ally accept the explanation that the uassiug of kussian trUOps ID Poland E due to a scheme of mobilization aTFang- ed months ago, or that the movements are caused by the change of cavalry from one plsce tO another cn account c! the scarcity of forage, The government IS reliably informed that theEc are s' least five hundred thousand Russian troops now in Russian Poland and the number is being daily lnc'essed. It IS believed that if Russis makes En evdsIve or unsatisfactory answer 10 the expls1s- ton demanded by Austr.s, ,Ee allies will a, once begin hoseliities.
 NEW YORK. December 20 The aid de states conference of proLIbi,icUisss met to-day. Ohio. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York were represented. It was resolved that a commiites be ap- pointed Co organize the conference Tor politlc york In the next campaign and 90 urce the formation oi couaty coz fersucez Members will be chosen from eloh ot the four states represented.
 DETROIT. December 20.-A voman wss arrested yesterday with ihisty-uine one thousand dollar U. ;. bonds m her possession, which she had vgIniy tried To pass. She is still ID the lookup. Her name is Broihie Vlctorine.
 SAN FRANCISCO, December 2O.-A Chronicle special from Albuquerque ,ays: The repUr.ed capture of tre ban Ut Berusl in the old town yesterday afternoon is untrue.
 CHIcAao. December 20.-In :he fed ersI court heTe Co day, Henry Root, Of San Frauciscc, filed a bill against the North Chicago Street Railway couPaoY, c!Bsming the company ls usInz an in- yentiUn of his without authority. The invention is street car cable track. Root seeks to have the company and its president K. c. S. Yerks, restrained by iuiuncsion.
 SAN DIEGc, December 20.-The Brit :sh bark Astoria arrived teddy CEe lun- dred ana fifty days from MsEYp8rt, Eng laud, with e cargo Cf 2 ,l3l ions ot steel rails for the Santa ks Rai!r1Gd Company on which S36j were paid ss duties.
 The Brush bark Angelo Norman also with rail for the Santa Ir rs!!rcad, has bet n spoken.
 PARIS. December 2l.-Jotn l.. Sulli- van has med n chBi.eLge to Smith or K.lrain for SJ.UOO side.
 PARIS, December 20.-A monument iO EdUgHa About was unveiled to-day ID Pefe lB Ch6iss. Ferry vE5 present and wE- warmly greeted by his friends.
 WAsHISGroS, December 19-A ruIaor is current in the Interior DeparEseut that William An5rcs Jackson Sparks l. 70 be returned 20 hIs former petition as Commissioner ot the General LsLd o. fee. Or course this is to occur Es soon Hs Mir. Villas is placed ut the head o' the Interior Department. Mir. Sparks Of late appears ID much better Eumor with tim- self Uuc al tbe v"Ti bo>ide, end the employees of She Land Office say thst he frequently sauUter5 into bis former quarters with a seii-salIsled smile as if be were confident oi soon IesGming bis old place. Sparks friends therefore e1- press tte hCps that. Mir. Lznsr may fail 10 his ambition 70 reach the Supreme bench, aud that Mir .NIlss may crowd him out Oi the Interior Department. In this case they declare that SpaTks will have an opportunity Co go back Es Con- missioner, and the Illinois states usa's 6 revenge oD the Southern member Ci the Cabinet VIII then be complete.
 SAS FRASCIsco. December 20.-A Chronicle special from Carson, Nevada. says: Mrs. Lan,iry telsgrEphs the CaF- son land office to-day for more Nevada land. She asked that ii be divided into forty acre t1scts to be utilized ss Christ mas presents to friends ID New York.
 WAsHISGrOS. December 20.-Quay in tToduced a bill 10 increase to S72 per month the pensions of those who now receive SJ0 per month, under The law granting pensions to soldiers aDd sail- ors Of tue late war who are totally dis ablsd.
 Plumb introduced bill to grant one mCatt'E tx'Ts pay to each year of eu- IIsimeu.s Co hli officers of the volunteer army Uf tue late wBr who served their Hull term and were hOnOrs6iy dis charged.
 Blair introduced biil declaring that the sct or June, lsSJ. snali De construed -O as to include al officers and enlisted men In tie army and their widows GEd minor children.
 George proposed En Emo ndment to Cullun's postal telegraph bill. IL pro- vIdss for tue construction of telegraph line from Atlanta 10 u Plsc, vIs BIr- mInghsm, Ala, Meridian, jackson aud Nlckgourg, Mics, MunToes and Shreve- port, Ls.. and MErshSll, Dallas. and Fort N orih Texas.
 The senate has removed the iuiunc- ton of secrecy from the following n0mi- nations, confirmed in secret session: ChHs. 5. Fsirchild Secretary of the Treasury, James ". Hyatt, United states Treasurer, Bsyicss W. Hanna, Minister of the Argentine Republic; Alexander :. Lswton, Minister to Aus- tro-HunzBry; John r. Benedict, Colleo- tor of Internal Revenue for the District of Colorado.
 WAsRNGToS, December 2O-The Sen ate Jucicisry Committee held meet Ing to-day, st which She rOIaJnaiIOn ot A-AAA-NA hfsa AaAEl IE- AA.t fU44AAtAA ltl-- ord was discussed. The hour for the meeting of the Senate arrived before he tisct was exhausted and further was referred to a sub. consisting Cf Edmuude, Hosr and Pugh.
 Senator Stewart introduced bill for ! % eli [ Jusncc and two associates st Wa arlington, with jurisdiction over the l contested land eases and private lad l ci6Ims in ArizoEa, New Mexoo and Col | orsdo and with night of appeal to the 1 justlce from the Lald Commissioner.
 Pugh offered s resolution that the | senate concur m D. joint session Te1olu- l llon for tinsl adjournment of Congress | u1tII after tbe passage Uf laws tending | 10 reduce tte :lsiff aud internal taxes. | The Senator addressed the Senate on | ihe subject. saying in subsssnce las fol- | lows: "Hs had never heard any valid | reason why whisky drinkers should be | relieved from the payment of this tax aud why the revenue which 1t yielded | hcUld be extO.Eed by tariff from con- sRmers Of the necessBries of life. He | knew no better use tO which whisky | could be applied than 60 lhe rrcduction | tIou Uf of tle S9l,OOJ.GO0 revenue neces- ssry Co psy pensions and the interest Of | the wsr debt instead ot extortIng that